The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 11, 1916, Page FOUR, Image 4
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KINGSTREE. S. O.
THURSDAY. WAY 11. 1916.
Our Contest Manager.
Mr J F Joyce,who with his wife is
conducting The Record contest,comes
highly recommended by such leading
papers in the South as the Charlotte
Observer, Winston-Salem Sentinel,
Evening Dispatch, Wilmington
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terprise. Greensboro Record, of
North Carolina; the Greenwood Index,
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Intelligencer, ?umter Herald, Dillon
Herald, etc. We trust that all our
citizens who come in contact with
him or his charming wife will extend
them a hearty welcome.
Mr and Mrs Joyce came to Kingstree
from Florence, where they have
twice conducted contests for the
Times, the first one, in 1913, being a
baby contest, and the second one,
which closed about three weeks
ago, was in every respect similar to
the one being conducted by Mr and
Mrs Joyce for The County Record.
While in Florence in 1913 Mr Joyce
visited us, and the late editor. Mr C
W Wolfe, was highly impressed with
his personality and his methods of
conducting contests, ana naa ne not
been in ill health, he would have engaged
Mr Joyce to conduct a contest
for this paper.
Mothers' Day,
In recent years the second Sunday
in May has been observed as "Mothers'
Day" and commemorative services
are usually held in various
churches and Sunday-schools. The
idea of paying widespread respect
and admiration to one who
plays so important a part in
the moral welfare of the world
is a beautiful one and deserving
of universal recognition, therefore,
let us remember this next
Sunday and pay homage to the deareast
and best friend we have ever
bad or ever will have on earth. If
you can do nothing more in honor
of her memory, and if you cannot be
with her, wear a white rose on the
lapel of your coat.
SPRING BANK SCHOOL CLOSES.
Interesting Programme Witnessed
by Large Andlence.
The 1915-16 session of the Spring
Bank school came to a close last Friday
night, and the exercises incident
to the occasion were a fitting climax
to the splendid work that had been
accomplished during the term under
the tutorship of Miss Blanche Reep,
whose capabilities as a teacher, an
able and efficient trainer of children
cannot be questioned, for in the successful
rendition of such a highly
interesting and entertaining programme
as was witnessed by the
large audience of friends and patrons
of the school Friday night,
there was ample evidence of the
splendid training the pupils had received.
The programme of exercises was
as follows:
Song?"Is There Any Better
Country Than the U S
School
"Welcome" Lurline Williamson
Pantomime?' 'In Memoriam"
Nine Girls
Piano Solo Hessie Williamson
Recitation?"Seein' Things"
Rqfus Mimms
Song?"Voices of the Woods"......
Twelve Girls
Poll Drill Five Little Girls
Piano Duet
Flag Drill Twelve Little Boys
Song-"The Gc^d Old U S A"
School
DI-" "M A II
rtmy... ... iuatuciis an i vi iviu
Presentation of Prizes, and Talk
Mr J G McCullough
Music Mr Silverman and Misf
Claudia Jones
Speech Mr Jack McElveen
Speech?"Mr Wilkins"?not heard
Those winning prizes for scholarships
were Addie Williamson, fifth
grade, and Hessie Williamson, sixth
grade. Feature of the occasion was
the omission of Mr Wilkin's speech.
There were about thirty children
in the school, divided into eight
grades. It was a one-teacher school,
m which little Miss Reep was principal,
teacher and assistant teacher
all in one, and to say that she did
not do her work faithfully and well
would be no digression from facts.
A number of ladies and gentlemen
from Kingstree attended the
exercises and are unstinted in their
praises of the excellent work of the
a __ J IL _ 1 c il
>enpoi ana we nospiiamy 01 me people
of the community.
Mr R Leo Carter, son of Hon J
Davis Carter, a prominent merchant
of Leo, has announced his candidacy
for the office of Treasurer of
Florence county.
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'MEXICANS COMMIT
ANOTHER ATROCITY J
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j KILL FOUR AMERICANS AND KIDj
NAP TWO OTHERS?PROMPT j
AMERICAN ACTION.
i El Paso, Texas, May 7:?Three |
American soldiers and a 10-year-old
boy have lost their lives and two
American citizens have been kidnap-!
ped and carried south of the inter
national boundary to almost certain
death in another raid of Mexican
f ( bandits that takes rank with Francisco
Villa's famous attack on Co- ]
lumbus, New Mexico. Whether the
1 marauders were Villa bandits or
1 Carranza forces is not known.
The bandits' foray, carrying them
, through the southern limits of
Brewster county, in" the Big Bend
district of Texas, and taking in three
settlements near the border?Glenn
Springs, Boquillas and Deemers?
took place on Friday night and Sat1
urday morning, but news of it did
; not reach here until today.
Within an hour preparedness had
: been begun for adequate action.
Major Gen Frederick Funston orderled
four troops of cavalry to proceed
i to the raided districts to reinforce
small detachments already on their
way to the scene from Presidio,
Texas, Alpine and other points.
These tioODS got under way to- j
night. It is said here that if the
exigencies of the case demand such
action they will cross the border to
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run down ana disperse me uanans.
The force consists of two troops of
the 8th cavalry from Fort B'iss, El
Paso, under Major George T Langhorne,
and two troops of the 14th
cavalry from Fort Clark, under Col
Frederick W Sibley.
While military events were developing
with such rapidity the conference-over
the co-operation of American
and Mexican soldiers in Mexico,
which had been expected to reach a
culmination today, came to an
abrupt halt.
A few miles west of Glenn Springs
an American patrol of eight men
from Troop A, of the 14th cavalry,
under command of Sergt Smith, was
stationed. The bandits began an
attack on the little temporary shack
in which the eight troopers were
quartered before the single sentinal
could raise an alarm. The time was
about 11 'oclock.
The attackers rushed toward the
shack shouting, "Viva Villa!" and
"Viva Carranza!" They were met
by a sturdy defence from the half
asleep Americans, however, and
failed in their evident attempt to
make a quick capture of the patrol
guard.
THREE KILLED.
From 11 o'clock that night until
after 2 o'clock in the morning Sergt
Smith fought the Mexicans from the
shelter of the patrol house. In that
time three of his men, Privates
Cohen, Coloe and Rogers, had been
killed and he and all the rest were |
wounded. Then the shack caught
fire.
It was impossible to stay longer so
Sergt Smith ordered a retreat. Two
of his men were so badly wounded
it was necessary to carry them.
Smith and the other men succeeded
in removing the badly wounded
and took out the bodies of the three
dead men and carried them to a
place of safety.
There was a motor truck attached
to the camp. The dead and dangerously
wounded men were loaded into
this and sent toward Marathon, a
station on the Southern Pacific, 85
miles north.
One man accompanied the truck.
This left Smith and two others to
engage the bandits. They retreated
to the low hills and fought from
behind rocks and mounds of gravel.
MEXICANS RETREAT.
While this was going on, ranchmen
of the vicinity heard the shooting
and hurried to the scene. Although
few in number they formed
an adequate reinforcement and
about 4 oclock, as dawn neared, the
Mexicans retreated.
This was five hours after the fighting
began. The bandits rode toward
the east until they came to
Glenn Springs. There they looted a
general store and killed the 10-year
old son of C G Compton. Then they
proceeded to Boquillas, a few miles
north of the Rio Grande, where they
seized supplies and forage and rode
on again.
Their next stop was at Deemers.
Here, according to the reports received
in El Paso, they looted the
general store of John Deemers.
Then they crossed back into Mexico,
taking with them Deemers and Louis
Coy, a man in his employ.
It is believed that Deemers and
Coy were killed after being taken to
the Mexican side.
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people who are weak, will be strengthened
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NEWSY LAKE CITY LETTER.
Hot-Footed lor Firebug?Much
Building-Hymeneal.
Lake City, May 10:?A C Hinds,
E-q, of Messrs Kelley & Hinds, was
in town Tuesday as attorney for certain
litigants in Magistrate Baldwin's
court.
Mr A B Wharton, fire investiga-j
tor for the insurance commissioner, I
spent a lew days nere tne lauer'
part of last week. It is supposed
that his visit had some connection
with the recent fire when the Star
warehouse was burned. Every person
with whom this writer has talked
is firmly convinced in his own
mind that that fire was no accident,
and it is hoped by those who respect
law and order that some determined
efforts will be made to discover the
incendiary, and put a stop to this
thing.
Dr A H Williams attended the|
meeting of the board of fisheries in'
Georgetown last week. The George- j
town fishermen claim that during,
the season just over they caught the
shad out at sea and beyond the
three-mile limit of State jurisdiction, |
and that they, the fish, are, there-j
fore, not subject to the tax. Asi
the shad are caught beyond the lim- j
its of the jurisdiction of the State i
(according to the statement of these
fishermen), the theory is that they,!
the shad, are in transit from the!
Doint out at sea where caught,!
thence through the State to the J
point of destination, and are, therefore,
exempt from this tax by the
State, Arrangements are being
made, it is understood, to test this
theory in the courts in order that
the matter may be settled definitely.
Mrs C D .Rollins and childrei of
Petersburg, Va, are visiting the parents
of the former.
A good deal of building is going
on in town at this time. The store
of J P Matthews & Co is getting its
last finishing touches, which store,
by the way, is one of the handsomest
and most substantial in town.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank is
enlarging its banking house by an
addition of twelve feet in width its
entire length. This will give room
for the big business this bank is doing.
Mr C M Kelley is building two
stores. Both will extend foom Main
street, around two sides of the bank
above mentioned which is on the
corner, to Acline avenue, and will
have two fronts. Mr J S McClam
is building his new store on very
nearly the same site of his wooden
building which was burned last winter.
The walls and roof of this
house are completed. This store is
about fifty by a hundred and fifty
feet. All these {[buildings fcare of
brick.
Farming conditions in this section
'(Yi our Onl;
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are not, speaking in general terms,
encouraging. Corn that is up, looks
very well, but that which is in the
ground is likely to stay there, unless
it rains soon. We have seen some
corn that is twelve, or more, inches
in height. The cotton that came
up a week or so ago has been thinned
out by the cool nights and the
excessive dryness. But must of the
seed planted has not come up, and
no doubt a good deal of this will
never come up, as such of the seeds
as swelled but failed to sprout well,
are rotten. Stands of tobacco are
poor, due to the lack of rain and the
scarcity of plants, Quite a lot of
plants that were set out have . died
since. The outlook now is that poor
nfondn un/4 Kf f Ia iliTAro t rri 11 nnr
olcujijo oi1u llllic 1c1 kllllcio will lci tainly
cause a very small crop of tobacco
to be harvested this season.
The wheat crops are looking very
well?in fact much better than the
oat crops, and the promise is that
we will have a right good supply of
flour.
Of course, it is hardly necessary
to say that rain is needed. That
fact will be accepted as a matter of
course. There has been but one
that amounted to a decent rain since
the first of March, and that was the
rain that fell on April 7.
Three young men came into town
last Sunday in a Ford. With them
they had a quart of alcohol, which
they claimed they used to prime the
engine of the Ford. Some folks
seem to think they "primed" their
own little "engines" with this alcohol.
Be that as it may, they were
in hilarious spirits, and along the
side of street tried to make the Ford
do some ditching. The Ford bucked,
turned over and went to sleep
on the job in a dilapidated condition.
TTie young men went to sleep
in the "refrigerator."
Messrs W R Barringer, of Florence,
and J S Mclnnis, of Darlington,
candidates for Congress, were
here last Friday. It is supposed
that they talked to some voters, as
candidates sometimes do that thing.
Miss Blanche Stuckey, of Lake
Pifir on/) Mv To moo VIa?.
Ul VJ OUU iul UOIUCO IXIU5 , W JL 1 IVienee,
were married last night. The
affair was a quiet one, and somewhat
of a surprise to many. The
bride is a daughter of Mr J L Stuckey,
the well-known live stock dealer.
Mr King is a son of Dr W L
King. . W L B.
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